The Principles and Practice of Textile Printing.: Second Edition revised throughout by James Best Fothergill

BRIGHTLY COLOURED & PATTERN DYED REAL CLOTH SAMPLES

tall 8vo. xx, 731pp., 13 plates (9 folding including one coloured), numerous illustrations through text, 116 brightly coloured and patterned actual dyed cloth samples pasted in as illustrations, illustrations in text, very well rebound in maroon cloth, spine lettered gilt, very good copy with clean fresh samples.

This work was first published in 1912 and this second edition is extensively revised and updated. The number of real cloth samples was increased from 84 to 118,"all new, and most of them produced on the large scale by the recipes which they are intended to illustrate. The preparation of special patterns for an edition of a book of this kind means much more work and management than meets the eye, but the authors are of the opinion that the time-honoured system of presenting specimens of the actual thing to the reader is well worth the trouble involved" [preface]. In that they were certainly correct.
This expanded edition "added matter includes a notice of a mediaeval block printing in Europe, and descriptions of - a new rubber-bowl printing machine, a new blanket-washing machine, Rawsthorne's stipple engraving machine, and the 'brush and drop' method of decorating textile fabrics. Additional information is also included relating to Basic, Mordant, Vat, and Sulphur colours generally and to Aniline black" [preface].